Bullet train project: NHSRCL invites bids for construction of BKC station

Days after the Maharashtra government announced that it has granted all permissions required for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project – considered a pet project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi – the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL), which is executing the project, on Friday invited bids for the design and construction of the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) station.

This will be the only underground station in the whole Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Corridor.

The announcement of clearance had came close on the heels of sustained opposition to the project by the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government led by Uddhav Thackeray, who had termed it as “of no use to the people of Maharashtra”. Instead, a Mumbai-Nagpur bullet train was needed, he had said.